OESTROIDEA
(blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)

OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Family 25 subtaxa 44 trophisms 16 references
Family 2 references
Family 1 subtaxa 5 trophisms
Family 31 subtaxa 78 trophisms 17 references
Family 211 subtaxa 962 trophisms 66 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SuperfamilyOESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)
InfraorderSchizophora - Calyptratae (an infraorder of flies)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Clemons, L. 2010 Progress with recording the woodlouse-flies (Diptera, Rhinophoridae) of Watsonian Kent Newsletter of The Kent Field Club No. 72: 4-16.
Falk, S. 2016 British blowflies (Calliphoridae) and woodlouse flies (Rhinophoridae)
Falk, S. *** Test key to British Rhinophoridae ***(Superseded)
Falk, S. Diptera (flies) www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/72157629586945825/
Herting, B. 1961 Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region: vol 216 64e Rhinophorinae Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region - Flies of the Palaearctic (Lindner, E. ed), 41pp, Schweizerbart and Borntraeger science publishers
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol X. Part 4(a), 133pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Generic Key

Pape, T. 1998 Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae Pape, T., 1998. Manual of Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3 - Rhinophoridae, 11pp, Palaearctic Diptera Vol 3: Higher Brachycera

OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Uffen, R.W.J. 1961 Miscellaneous notes on Diptera. Part 1: Tachinidae and parasitic Calliphoridae Ent. Gazette 2: 46-49.

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 1,391 images of OESTROIDEA (blow-flies, blue-bottles, flesh flies and parasitoid flies)

A small family of small slender black bristly flies. The larvae are mostly parasitoids of woodlice.

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